....wonder were the name City of Dis came from.....?
Made up of people who don't believe in dis or dat?....Sorry...bad joke..:blush
Wow the City of Dis in Dante's Inferno is heavy going...
...
"Down to the bottom of this sorry pit
Do any ever climb from the first level
Where the only punishment is severed hope?"
This question I put to him; he replied,
20 "Rarely it happens that any one of us
Makes the journey I am making now.
"True, once before I was here below,
Conjured by that heartless Erichtho
Who summoned shades back to their own bodies.
"Shortly after I’d been stripped of flesh
25 She made me enter inside that same wall
To draw a soul back from the zone of Judas.
"That place is the lowest and the darkest
And the farthest from all-encircling heaven.
30 I know the pathway well, so rest assured.
...
"That one there on the left is Megaera,
And on the right is Alecto, wailing;
Tisiphone is in the middle." He ceased.
With her nails each one tore at her own breasts,
50 Thrashed with her hands, and shouted out so loud
That in dread I drew closer to the poet.
"Bring on Medusa! We’ll turn him to stone!"
They all screeched out together, staring down;
"We ill revenged the raid of Theseus!"
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Some light reading...
😀
http://www.donaldnewman.com/dante/divinecomedy/inferno/TableofContents.html
[Edited on 18-8-2004 by jenz58]
[Edited on 18-8-2004 by jenz58]
